Donald Trump has said he plans to work “the french fry job” at McDonald’s after repeating his claims that Vice President Kamala Harris lied about working at the fast-food chain.
The vice president said previously that she briefly worked at a McDonald’s branch in Alameda, California, during a summer between college semesters in the early 1980s.
Trump has said that he does not believe her, and repeated his claims at a rally in Pennsylvania on Monday.
“For a long time, [Harris has] been talking about her experience at McDonald’s. ‘I worked at McDonald’s, over the french fries, it was so hot,'” he said.
“I think I’m gonna go to a McDonald’s next week some place, it might not be here in your place—I’m gonna go to a McDonald’s and I’m gonna work the french fry job for about a half an hour, I wanna see how it is.”
Harris has referenced her McDonald’s stint multiple times in the past. In an August 31 post on X, formerly Twitter, she referred to herself as “a daughter of Oakland, California, who was raised by a working mother and had a summer job at McDonald’s.”
Earlier in the month, on August 10, the Harris campaign published a video that said: “She grew up in the middle class home, she was the daughter of a working mom and she worked at McDonald’s while she got her degree. Kamala Harris knows what it’s like to be middle class.”
Trump responded to Harris’ X post, writing on Truth Social: “Comrade Kamala Harris lied about working at McDonalds. SHE NEVER WORKED THERE, they think she’s ‘nuts.'”
The day before, Trump told a Moms for Liberty convention in Washington: “After an exhaustive study that took about 20 minutes, they found out she never worked there.”
At the beginning of September, Trump posted an edited photo of Harris in a McDonald’s kitchen on X with the caption: “Kamala said she worked at McDonalds—She never did. Lie!”
Newsweek has contacted the Harris and Trump campaigns via email outside of normal working hours. We have also contacted McDonald’s to ask for a response to Harris’ claims and Trump’s comments.
As both candidates work to appeal to ordinary Americans, Trump has gone viral for buying groceries for a Pennsylvania mother.
The moment, which took place at Sprankle’s Neighborhood Market in Kittanning on Monday was posted to X by Margo Martin, Trump’s deputy director of communications.
In the video, Trump is seen interacting with a mother and her young sons in the checkout line. The Republican presidential nominee hands the woman a $100 bill, saying, “It’s going to go down a little bit, it just went down $100. We’re going to do this for you in the White House.”
The gesture, along with Trump’s compliments about the woman’s children, quickly spread across various social media platforms.
